De prospectiva pingendi

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De prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting) is the earliest and only pre-1500 Renaissance treatise solely devoted to the subject of perspective.^[1] It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca in the mid-1470s to 1480s,^[2] and possibly by about 1474.^[3] Despite its Latin title, the opus is written in Italian.